Enough ! I have removed several posts from this thread and I expect those who made them to stop & cease their personal arguments here and now.
Get, read, and study all the books you can find on grading because you'll need all the help you can get. The ANA and PCGS grading books are the...
You can think a lot of things when trying to justify an excuse. But in the end it all comes down to one thing, and just one thing - wear. And on...
It's very simple, wear has many causes. That includes coins rubbing against each other in a mint bag. Now you explain to me how you, or anybody...
In their dictionary the ANA list luster. They say - "Although normally brilliant, with time luster may become dull, frosty, spotted or...
All that does is show the inconsistency of the TPGs. Dunno bout you but I've seen countless numbers of coins rejected because of environmental...
LOL ! Now that's what I call taking instruction literally Larry :D
I agree it has that look, but more so in the hair to me. That was the first thought that came to my mind when I looked at the coin. But a close...
Remember what I have always explained, that when grading to start at the bottom and work your way up, not to start at the top and work your way...
If you click on the pics so they expand to full size you can see traces of the green in most of the recesses and protected areas, particularly the...
My guess is the wood they are encased within caused the toning.
And that is the entire point that you seem to want to deny - PCGS says, specifically, that it is wear.
No, it doesn't. In this context when someone says spot they usually mean a small, or even tiny, circular dot. And toning on any coin does not...
And that is kind of the issue for that is that is how the coin was designed, was intended to look. The only coins prior to '73 that have the cameo...
Contact marks ? When did I ever say anything about contact marks ? Or do you think that contact marks and wear are the same thing ? I certainly...
You seem to ignore the obvious. PCGS admits the coins can have wear on them and still be graded as MS. They went so far as to say so,...
Really ? When PCGS states flat out, in writing, that Saints with light wear can be graded as high as MS67 - I'm the one who is wrong and seeing...
Well ya see Paul THAT is the entire problem right there. If the TPGs say it, you choose to believe it. Whereas me, I choose to believe evidence I...
That is simply not true. Yes, a lot of them do, but no where near almost all of them. And anybody who wants to see that with their own eyes, meet...
Pretty much all of the obv high points, eagle head and breast. Can't say I see any on the wing tips.
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